Mid-season arc ends with ‘Spoils of War’

Beware of SPOILERS for Stargate Atlantis Season Four’s “Be All My Sins Remember’d” and “Spoils of War” in the report below.

Stargate Atlantis returned from the holiday break with a vengeance last week, blowing away fans with the epic and twist-filled episode “Be All My Sins Remember’d.” But that’s not the end of the story. This week’s “Spoils of War” will wrap up the mid-season story arc, as the Atlantis team attempts to salvage a Wraith hive ship.

Now SCI FI Channel has revealed new details about the next all-new episode, set to air on Friday, January 11.

The war with the Replicators is over, and with it so too the alliance between Atlantis and the Wraith. But the Wraith failed to meet up at a predetermined rendezvous point after the climactic battle, their former Wraith prisoner among them.

Here’s how SCI FI describes “Spoils of War:”

High above the Replicator homeworld, a provisional alliance wages an all-out assault on the Replicator fleet. As the battle wages, a group of Wraith execute a last-minute plot to retrieve a Z.P.M. from the planet’s surface.

Weeks later, the Atlantis long-range sensors detect the signal of a subspace tracking device familiar to Dr. McKay. The team follows the signal to a damaged hive ship drifting in space. Amidst the ship’s records, they discover references to a secret Wraith base …

“Spoils of War” premieres Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on SCI FI. The episode premieres on Sky One in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 15.

Learn more about upcoming episodes in GateWorld’s Season Four episode guide.